The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group
(EOWG) is to develop strategies, and awareness and training resources, to
educate the Web community regarding the need for Web accessibility and approaches
to implementing Web accessibility.

consulting with other WAI groups to identify
outreach needs; to develop strategies and resources to address those needs,
and to advise on ease-of-use of other WAI groups' deliverables, including
presentation of information (structure, style, semantics) across all areas
of the WAI Web site;

In general, EOWG deliverables have the status of "WAI Resources" when completed;
in some cases they become W3C Notes. EOWG members
and/or WAI staff develop most deliverables; some are produced under subcontract
but with the guidance of this group. EOWG deliverables must address
cross-disability considerations, be consensus-based, technically sound, and
reflect the most current W3C specifications.

EOWG deliverables include but are not limited to the following types of materials
and events. Previously completed EOWG deliverables are also included here
as these will periodically need updating:

Assist in developing awareness and training strategies and materials, to
support promotion and implementation of Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines. Consult with WCAG WG as needed on ease-of-use
considerations regarding WCAG.

EOWG communications, home page, and charter are public. The majority of EOWG
deliverables are public, except deliverables where there is a specific
confidentiality requirement during development, such as in preparation of
a fact sheet for use as part of press package to accompany an as-yet unreleased
W3C Recommendation, or deliverables where there is a privacy concern continuing
after development, such as in the case of a compilation of addresses of product
managers willing to be contacted regarding accessibility resources, but not
wanting their contact information available to the general public.

The EOWG works by consensus. In the event of failure to reach consensus,
the EOWG may resort to a vote as described in the
W3C Process document.
Invited experts are allowed to vote. Appeals from Working Group decisions
may be made first to the WAI Coordination Group (through its chair) and then
to the W3C team following the procedures established by the W3C Process document
(first the domain leader, and then the W3C director).

10.1 W3C Member and invited expert participation

The EOWG welcomes participation from representatives of
W3C Member
organizations, and also from
invited
experts from disability organizations, accessibility research projects,
government organizations, and others interested in promoting Web accessibility,
particularly those who have expertise in preparation of promotional materials
and online educational resources around Web technologies.

EOWG participants are expected to observe the requirements of the
W3C
Process for Working Groups. For EOWG, the following commitment is expected
of members in good standing:

minimum 4 hours per week of EOWG work

remain current on the EOWG mailing list
(mailing list
archive) and respond in a timely manner to postings on mailing list

participate in weekly or bi-weekly phone meetings or send regrets to the
chair

participate in face-to-face meetings or send regrets to the chair

assist in preparing EOWG deliverables for discussion

10.2 W3C Team resources

25% Judy Brewer -- chair and team contact

5% Daniel Dardailler

5% Charles McCathieNevile

5% Marja-Riitta Koivunen

80% TBA1 and 50% TBA2

10.3 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

The purpose of the EOWG is to produce public documents available royalty-free
to everyone, following W3C standard IPR
terms. Therefore, anyone commenting in the EOWG will be considered to
offer these ideas as contributions to the EOWG documents. Organizations with
IPR in areas related to the Education and Outreach Working Group must disclose
IPR as described in the
W3C Process regarding IPR and
W3C's IPR fact sheet.
Invited experts are
required to disclose IPR claims in the same manner as individuals from
W3C Member organizations.